Saraju Mohanty is an Indian-American professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.The University of North Texas, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, http://www.cse.unt.edu/site/node/91 He is the founding director of the Smart Electronic Systems Laboratory (SESL) there.The University of North Texas, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Smart Electronic Systems Laboratory (SESL), http://www.smohanty.org/SESL/index.html He has also served in leadership roles in international professional organizations and academic journals, including the IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. He is the founding Dean of Artificial Intelligence Technology Institute (AiTI) at the SRM University-AP.AI Technology Institute (AiTI), https://www.srmap.edu.in/aiti/, https://www.srmap.edu.in/aiti/SRM University AP Leadership, https://www.srmap.edu.in/about-us/leadership/, https://www.srmap.edu.in/about-us/leadership/
Mohanty is a researcher in the areas of "smart electronics for smart cities/villages", "smart healthcare", "smart agriculture", "application-Specific things for efficient edge computing", and "methodologies for digital and mixed-signal hardware".Research Interests, Professor Mohanty, http://www.smohanty.org/Research.html He has made significant research contributions to security by design (SbD) for electronic systems, hardware-assisted security (HAS) and protection, high-level synthesis of digital signal processing (DSP) hardware, and mixed-signal integrated circuit computer-aided design and electronic design automation.
Mohanty has been the editor-in-chief (EiC) of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine during 2016-2021.IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, http://cesoc.ieee.org/publications/ce-magazine.html He has held the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Very Large Scale Integration during 2014-2018. He holds 6 granted patents in the areas of his research, and has published 600 research articles and 5 books.ResearchGate – Saraju Mohanty, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saraju_Mohanty He is ranked among top 2% faculty around the world in Computer Science and Engineering discipline as per the standardized citation metric adopted by the Public Library of Science Biology journal.UNT researchers among world's top 2% of scientists on Stanford University list, https://news.unt.edu/news-releases/unt-researchers-among-worlds-top-2-scientists-stanford-university-listUNT Engineering faculty among 2024 list of world's most cited researchers, https://engineering.unt.edu/news/unt-engineering-faculty-among-list-of-most-cited-researchers, February 24, 2025.UNT faculty among top 2% from the 2024 list of the world's most cited researchers, https://www.untsystem.edu/news/unt-faculty-among-most-cited-researchers-2024-world-list.php, January 7, 2025. Mohanty received a Glorious India Award – Rich and Famous NRIs of America in 2017 for his contributions to the discipline.US-based NRI Achievers Honoured With Glorious India Awards, , The Telegraph India, June 7, 2017.
Education
Saraju Mohanty started his schooling at Lodhachua, Nayagarh, Odisha. After graduating from Badagada Government High School, Bhubaneswar in 1988, Mohanty completed a 10+2 Science degree from Rajdhani College, Bhubaneswar in 1990. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, in 1995.CET Bhubaneswar observes Annual Alumni Meet, http://www.odishanewsinsight.com/events/cet-bhubaneswar-observes-annual-alumni-meet/, December 31, 2015.Unitary University Status For CET Demanded, The Pioneer, http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/unitary-university-status-for-cet-demanded.html, Thursday, December 31, 2015.
In 1999 Mohanty completed a master's degree in engineering in Systems Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India.S. P. Mohanty, "Watermarking of Digital Images", Master of Engineering in System Science and Automation Thesis, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, January 1999, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.10.1673&rep=rep1&type=pdf His thesis mentors at IISc were Professor K. R. Ramakrishnan and Professor Mohan Kankanhalli (IEEE Fellow) with whom he co-authored his first peer-reviewed paper.S. P. Mohanty, K. R. Ramakrishnan, and M. S. Kanakanhalli, "A Dual Watermarking Technique for Images", in Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Multimedia Conference (ACMMM) (Vol. 2), pp.49–51, 1999.
Mohanty earned a PhD in computer engineering from the University of South Florida in 2003. His PhD mentor was Professor Nagarajan Ranganathan (IEEE Fellow and AAAS Fellow).S. P. Mohanty, "Energy and Transient Power Minimization During Behavioral Synthesis", PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, 2003, http://etd.fcla.edu/SF/SFE0000129/SarajuDissertationFinal.pdfNagarajan "Ranga" Ranganathan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, http://www.usf.edu/engineering/cse/documents/ranganathan-cv.pdf
Scientific contributions
Smart Healthcare
Mohanty's research in smart healthcare has focused on Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), healthcare cyber-physical systems (H-CPS), involving wearable devices, AI, and security and privacy. His work includes iKardo, an intelligent ECG device for automatic identification of critical heartbeats; MyWear, a smart garment for continuous vital-sign monitoring; SaYoPillow, a privacy-assured IoMT framework for stress monitoring; and iGLU, a secure non-invasive glucose monitoring and automatic insulin-delivery system. His research has also addressed cardiovascular disease prediction using ECG, seizure detection from EEG signals, and AI-based diagnosis using multi-channel EEG. His work has additionally examined security and privacy in wearable and implantable medical devices and secure architectures for connected healthcare systems.
Smart Agriculture
Mohanty's research in smart agriculture has contributed to the development of Internet-of-Agro-Things (IoAT) and agriculture cyber-physical systems (A-CPS) that integrate IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, edge computing, and intelligent sensing. His early work included gCrop, an Internet-of-Leaf-Things system for monitoring crop growth, and dCrop, a deep-learning framework for crop disease prediction. His sCrop system introduced a solar-powered IoAT device for automatic plant-disease prediction, crop selection, and irrigation, combining sensor nodes, imaging, convolutional neural networks, and mobile visualization for sustainable agriculture. His subsequent eCrop framework addressed automatic crop-damage estimation using a convolutional Siamese neural network and was designed to support automated agricultural insurance claim assessment. More recent works have extended this research to plant-disease detection and damage estimation, identification of disease hotspots using graph-based methods, disease-severity estimation using graph neural networks, and autonomous weed management through the WeedOut framework. His broader work has also examined the architecture, technologies, applications, and challenges of smart agriculture and has contributed to comprehensive frameworks for integrating IoT, AI, sensing, and intelligent automation into agricultural systems.
Security by Design (SbD)
Mohanty's research has made contributions to Security by Design (SbD) or Secure by design, a design paradigm in which security and privacy are incorporated into electronic and cyber-physical systems from the beginning of the design process rather than being retrofitted after deployment. He introduced the Secure Digital Camera (SDC) in 2004 as an early implementation of hardware-assisted security and SbD, integrating security and intellectual-property protection directly into sensing hardware. The SDC was designed to provide real-time protection of multimedia information at the point of capture and could serve as a trustworthy sensing node in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Applications included secure video surveillance, digital video broadcasting, electronic passports, and identity-card processing. His research on secure digital cameras subsequently extended to secure multimedia systems, digital rights management, and hardware implementations of digital watermarking.
A related research direction has been digital watermarking and intellectual-property protection. Mohanty's master's research at the Indian Institute of Science focused on digital image watermarking, and his subsequent research developed hardware architectures for visible and invisible watermarking, secure JPEG encoding, real-time multimedia protection, and low-power watermarking. His work included VLSI implementations of watermarking algorithms and architectures for protecting digital media and hardware intellectual property while considering energy and implementation costs.
Hardware-Assisted Security
Mohanty's SbD research subsequently expanded into Hardware-Assisted Security (HAS) for electronic systems, IoT, and cyber-physical systems. His work has examined protection of hardware intellectual property, Physical unclonable function (PUFs), hardware Trojans, secure authentication, trusted hardware, and security mechanisms for resource-constrained connected devices. His works IP Core Protection and Hardware-Assisted Security for Consumer Electronics examines hardware-assisted approaches to IP-core protection and security, including watermarking, physical unclonable functions, and protection mechanisms for consumer-electronics hardware.
His later work extended HAS and SbD to IoT and cyber-physical systems, including protection against hardware Trojans and security mechanisms for devices operating at the edge of IoT systems. In Eternal-Thing, his research addressed analog hardware-Trojan resilience in IoT devices, reflecting his broader approach of integrating security mechanisms into the hardware architecture of connected systems rather than relying solely on software-based protection.
Another research direction has involved PUF-based hardware security and authentication. PUFs use inherent manufacturing variations in integrated circuits to generate device-specific electronic fingerprints, providing a mechanism for device authentication without permanently storing conventional secret keys. Mohanty's PUFchain research integrated PUF-based hardware authentication with distributed-ledger technologies for IoT and Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) devices. The subsequent PUFchain 3.0 work integrated PUFs, blockchain, and IOTA Tangle to provide device and data security for healthcare cyber-physical systems, explicitly applying a decentralized hardware-software SbD approach to IoMT security.
Security and Privacy by Design
Mohanty has also advocated Security and Privacy by Design (SPbD) for the Internet of Everything (IoE), arguing that security and privacy should be considered during the initial design cycle of cyber-physical systems rather than added later. His work has applied this principle to smart healthcare, IoT, and other connected systems in which sensing, computation, communication, and actuation are increasingly integrated. This approach combines hardware security, trustworthy sensing, authentication, privacy protection, and secure communication as architectural elements of smart electronic systems.